have been -- has been to use the middle class tax cuts as leverage to try and extract these super big tax breaks for very wealthy individuals, including now their focus on trying to get 7,200 estates, an average tax break of 1.2 million. this is the top fraction of 1% of the super wealthiest estates, inheritance taxes in the country. they apparently want to put more silver spoons in more people's mouths and provide this big break. again, the sorry part of the story is they're using the middle class to extract these concessions for very wealthy individuals. >> at this late hour, are we going to be dealing with that level of negotiation? is it more the big picture stuff? for example, what would the number be in terms of whose rate would stay the same, whose would go up, $250,000, $400,000, $500,000. are we looking at bigger generalities if we're going to get this done in the next 30 hours? >> that's certainly part of it, where the threshold would be. but this estate tax represents about $140 billion. that's not a trivial amount. republicans proposed increasing the burden on medicare ben
